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Monday, June 30, 2014

A black reverend stiffed by the Cochran campaign has exposed an alleged criminal conspiracy by Cochran staffers to commit massive voter fraud ahead of Tuesday's controversial U.S. Senate Republican runoff election in Mississippi.

Reverend Stevie Fielder, associate pastor at historic First Union Missionary Baptist Church and former official at Meridian's redevelopment agency, says he delivered "hundreds or even thousands," of blacks to the polls after being offer money and being assured by a Cochran campaign operative that Chris McDaniel was a racist. "They [the Cochran campaign] told me to offer blacks fifteen dollars each and to vote for Thad."

It is illegal under several provisions of Mississippi law and federal law for campaign officials to bribe voters with cash and punishable up to five years in jail. (MS Code 97-13-1; MS Code 97-13-3 (2013) (Federal Code 18 U.S.C. 597, U.S.C. 1973i(c)) Voter fraud schemes are not unusual for Mississippi. In 1999 Mississippi's attorney general reported massive voter fraud allegations throughout the Palmetto state. In 2011, a Mississippi NAACP leader was sent to prison for voter fraud, according to the Daily Caller.

It would seem that laws were broken here, too. At the direction of the Cochran campaign, Reverend Fielder went "door to door, different places, mostly impoverished neighborhoods, to the housing authorities and stuff like that," telling fellow blacks that McDaniel was a racist and promising them $15 per vote. "They sold me on the fact that he was a racist and that the right thing to do was to keep him out of office," Fielder says.

Text messages released to Got News and a recorded interview with Reverend Fielder confirmed that Saleem Baird, a staffer with the Cochran campaign and current legislative aide to U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, and Cochran campaign manager, Kirk Sims, were involved in a $15 per vote cash bribery scheme to target members of the black community.

"They said they needed black votes," said the Reverend Fielder on the phone. He says Baird told him to put "give the fifteen dollars in each envelope to people as they go in and vote. You know, not right outside of the polling place but he would actually recruit people with the $15 dollars and they would go in and vote." Fielder said he received thousands of dollars in envelopes from Baird and distributed them accordingly. Fielder also says he went to the campaign office on another occasion to pick up $300 in cash and was among a room full of people who were doing the same thing he was.

Fielder said this was going on throughout the state of Mississppi. But, at the end of the day, he says he ended up being stiffed by the Cochran camapaign:

For his efforts, Fielder says the Cochran campaign and Baird promised him $16,000 for paying black voters $15 a vote, but Baird wound up stiffing him. Baird even asked him to delete all texts between the two of them. In addition to Baird, Fielder says he spoke with Kirk Sims, the Cochran campaign manager, and a woman named "Amanda" with the campaign, most likely Amanda Shook, director of operations to re-elect Thad Cochran. All refused to pay him the agreed upon amount of $16,000.

You mean text messages like these below?

Fielder is a Democrat but said he has voted for Republicans in the past. And though Fielder is being paid for his story by Got News, he says he'd come forward anyways. 'I thought what I did was wrong.' Fielder said he was motived mostly by concerns that McDaniels was a racist, not money.

As to what should happen next, 'definitely the election should not be allowed to stand," says Fielder, who says he'll support McDaniel in event of a special election. 'He's been done wrong. He's not what they said that he is.'

Got News tried calling both Baird and Sims with Fielder on the line. We got through to Sims but Sims insisted that there was a bad connection when Fielder asked about the racist smear campaign against Chris McDaniel and hung up. Were Baird found to have violated any laws in this matter, this would not be his first time he had a brush with the wrong side of the law. In 2011, Baird, who is a legislative staffer with U.S. Senator Roger Wicker, was allowed to keep his job with the senator after being arrested on charges of running an illegal strip joint in Jackson.

But Mr. Chairman, there is a two ton elephant in the room you are ignoring, because I haven't seen you address it, and you are a fool if you think you can just wish it away.

It would have been one thing if Thad Cochran had won the primary over conservative Tea Party challenger Chris McDaniel because he had a better message, had been willing to listen to his constituents and what they wanted to see happen not just in DC, but have their state represented.

But he didn't. Instead of a better message, Cochran, Haley Barbour and his family and the GOP-esablishment types (John McCain, the NRSC, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Grahamnesty, Karl Rove) used the liberal playbook (with help from liberals) of fear-mongering and race baiting against not only McDaniel, but the Tea Party, running some of the most despicable ads and engaging in a "get out the vote" campaign that has turned up illegal votes in many areas.

All this while you stayed silent, Mr. Priebus.

Unfortunately, this establishment war against the Tea Party didn't start with Chris McDaniel. It started way back in 2010, when establishment architect Rove decided to attack Christine O'Donnell as unelectable, never mind she had her IRS forms leaked to the media in a way to malign her. Lisa Murkowski couldn't accept the fact that a Tea Party candidate, Joe Miller, beat her with a better message, so she ran as an independent to keep her seat.

We're always being told how we must have "outreach" with women and minorities, but we saw the establishment "gentlemen" do nothing (and in some cases, aid and abet...I'm looking at you Karl) while articulate conservative women like Sarah Palin get tarred and feathered with slander, innuendo and untrue attacks by the Obama lapdog media. The same happens to Allen West, Ted Cruz, Herman Cain...they're branded as troublemakers because they're not willing to toe the establishment line.

We saw the establishment pile-on Newt Gingrich with a vicious, scorched-earth smear campaign in 2012. But any criticism of Romney's business dealings? Can't talk about that. Is it any wonder why Romney couldn't shake that off of him, because that soft spot was something we couldn't talk about, and if we did, we were "attacking capitalism."

More recently, we saw a great, upstanding conservative in Virginia named Ken Cuccinelli have his gubernatorial campaign kneecapped out of spite by establishment RINO Bill Bolling. Now, we in the Commonwealth have a corrupt, Clintonoid governor using Obama-style dictatorial tactics in passing a state budget with Medicaid funding, all because of RINO Bolling's little temper-tantrum.

Through all of that, you stayed silent. Somehow, you were re-elected to your leadership post in 2013 after leading the GOP in losing the most important election in our lifetime, 2012. What have you done? Continuously stuck your finger in the eyes of conservatives and the Tea Party, but expected us to go vote for whomever the establishment decides will run in November.

Arrogant and out of touch--I always applied that term to Democrats, liberals, and the Hollywood, New York, New England elitists who look down their noses through their chardonnay glasses at those of us who are not like them. More and more, it's becoming clear that the establishment Republicans are just as arrogant and out of touch as liberal Democrats. Both sides play partisan politics like it is a Redskins vs. Cowboys football game.

But it's not a game. Our nation is dying from a massive debt, overspending, an economy that has not recovered from the 2008 recession, an erosion of liberty, and a lack of leadership domestically and on the world stage. Yet while we conservatives bring those concerns forward, we are treated as if we are what's wrong with the country...not just by Democrats, but also by GOP establishment elitists who expect us to vote for whom they decide the candidate will be, arrogantly thinking we will settle for the "lesser of two evils."

Well, after your dastardly deed in Mississippi, you might just have well outraged enough folks who won't be voting this year, because they no longer see the value in voting for someone just because they have an "R" by their name. They no longer see the use in having a majority in power who act so easily spooked by the libs and their media acolytes. "My Party, Right or Wrong" might be the operating procedure for the sheepish liberals who vote Democrat, but any American who cares about the future of his nation must break out of this party tribalism, especially when the GOP leadership is unwilling to confront those on the other side who destroy the very foundation of our nation.

Republicans ran on repealing Obamacare in 2010, but thus far have only offered lip-service to the idea. When Ted Cruz and Mike Lee went on an effort to defund it, the establishment types (McCain, Graham, Rove) got spooked by the Obama Media coverage and became the Left's useful idiots by attacking Lee and Cruz.

The IRS scandal against the Tea Party is a massive abuse of power that should be leading to jail sentences in order to get to the truth. But Darrell Issa is all bull and no cattle. If he really meant business, Lois Lerner would be residing in the gray bar hotel right now, or would have sought immunity to reveal what she really knew. Same goes for that arrogant IRS head. I don't want Paul Ryan sitting up there acting like a blowhard for the cameras, I want to see pressure put to him where he'll either sing like a bird or get issued an orange jumpsuit.

Richard Milhous Obama has willfully violated his oath of office in such a manner he is deserving of impeachment several times over, yet all John Boehner wants to do is file a lawsuit against him? What a bleeping joke! Boehner must have had one too many martinis to realize he has the power of the purse and could cut off funding to the Executive Branch, if he doesn't have the gonads to impeach. Or is he just too afraid to use that power? He might burst out crying if he's attacked.

Leadership is what we desperately need, in Congress and also at the RNC, and we're not getting it from you, Boehner, or McConnell. You all act like young George McFly from Back to the Future, afraid of being bullied and kicked around by the Democrats (Biff and his band of bullies), when what is needed is someone with the backbone to punch the bullying Biff in the mouth.

Unlike some, I'm not going to play the game of take the loss and keep the eye on the ball, especially after what happened in Mississippi was done in such a vile, despicable manner. Don't count on me to carry the GOP water here at this blog. Likewise, don't expect me to vote unless you have candidates who do more than give lip service to conservative principles.

Why? Because when you attack your base, why should they come out to vote again in November? Right now, your silence about what happened last Tuesday is being viewed as complicity, by the grassroots. If you do not fix it, you are on the verge of another losing election season for the GOP that they should have won.

The California Democrat said following Saturday's visit to a Border Patrol facility in Brownsville where unaccompanied children are being held that she was more optimistic a few days ago. She said Republican Speaker of the House John Boehner gives little reason to be hopeful now, but didn't elaborate.

More than 52,000 unaccompanied children, most from Central America, have been apprehended entering the U.S. illegally since October. It has created what President Barack Obama called an "urgent humanitarian situation."

Pelosi said Congress needs to put politics aside in addressing the child immigrants, adding that, "the fact is these are children, children and families. We have a moral responsibility to address this in a dignified way."

Who wants to hear about "morals" and doing something "for the children" from one of the biggest proponents of abortion on demand? Pelosi is the biggest hypocrite out there. Not only are she and other Democrats agitating for amnesty as a way to increase Democrat voter rolls, she has a business interest as well.

Pelosi – who owns non-union vineyards in Napa Valley where grape-picking depends chiefly on the availability of cheap foreign labor – is doing everything she can to help open the floodgates to more illegal immigration. And she wants the American taxpayers to pay their way. As even more proof of this than I previously reported, Pelosi does not want employers like her to be required to pay the cost of illegal aliens’ hospital care. She voted against a bill that would make employers liable for the reimbursements if an undocumented employee seeks medical attention. And she voted in favor of rewarding illegal aliens from Mexico with Social Security benefits.

The Obama administration is "not bluffing" in its intent to take executive action on immigration policy if House Republicans don't act soon, top Democratic leaders warned Thursday.

President Obama has delayed any potential changes to his deportation policy to allow House GOP leaders time to bring legislation to the floor this summer. But if the Republicans don't act in July, the Democrats say, unilateral changes by Obama are inevitable.

"We're at the end of the line," Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said Thursday during a press briefing in the Capitol. "We're not bluffing by setting a legislative deadline for them to act.

"Their first job is to govern," Menendez added, "and in the absence of governing, then you see executive actions."

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) piled on. Noting that a year has passed since the Senate passed a sweeping immigration reform bill with broad bipartisan support, he urged House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to bring a similar bill to the floor.

"I don't know how much more time he thinks he needs, but I hope that Speaker Boehner will speak up today," Durbin said. "And if he does not, the president will borrow the power that is needed to solve the problems of immigration."

The remarks come a day after Boehner announced his intent to push legislation allowing the House to sue Obama for what the Republicans say is a habitual inclination to overstep his constitutional authority.

Sen. Charles Schumer (N.Y.), the third-ranking Democrat in the upper chamber, said Boehner and other Republican critics of Obama's executive actions have "a very good antidote" for their fears: "Put a bill on the floor."

"He's, like, shooting his parents and then throwing himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan," Schumer said. "Pass a bill, and that won't happen.

"If they don't bring any bill to the floor, the president has no choice — on a humanitarian basis and on a policy basis — to act where he can on his own," Schumer added.

Meanwhile, Border Patrol agents in the Valley are frustrated, one even says the US government has become part of the smuggling business (CNSNews).

Albert Spratte, the sergeant-at-arms of the National Border Patrol Council, Local 3307 in the Rio Grande Valley, said the Obama administration is largely to blame for waves of illegal immigrants that have been flooding the Southwest U.S. border since February, saying the government opened the door for the crisis by making it “clear they’re not going to deport people.”

Spratte, who was speaking with CNSNews.com as a representative of theunion, further said “we don’t have control of the border,” and if the Obama administration claims it is not in effect giving amnesty to the illegals, then “don’t believe them.”

Also, by allowing so many young illegal aliens to be released into this country, “the U.S. government has become a part of the smuggling business,” he said.

“This is Washington’s problem to fix. This administration has made it pretty clear they’re not going to deport people, with things like the DREAM Act and all that,” Spratte told CNSNews.com during an interview on June 22 in McAllen, Texas, currently the busiest zone of the Rio Grande Valley Sector of the U.S.-Mexico border.

“It used to be that if you got caught, we sent you back. Now we don’t do that,” he said. “The people in Central America, they’ve heard we aren’t sending people back. Word’s gotten around. When these people come up to us and turn themselves over, that’s what they tell us. So we’ve created a suction now.

The Border Patrol agent also says this influx of aliens has taken them away from other areas, like drug enforcement.

“The majority of agents believe more narcotics are getting away because we’re too busy dealing with this crisis,” he said. “And we know al Qaida has talked about bringing things like small pox across the border, so what are we not catching? We don’t know.”

Disease is also becoming a problem, Spratte said, citing cases of polio, scabies, leprosy and even rabies that have been reported.

“Chicken pox, small pox, H1N1, who knows,” Spratte said.

“The American people don’t realize how bad this is, but they’re going to when it becomes a problem where they live,” he said. “These people are being sent into other places in the U.S., so these diseases could end up in your backyard.”

Thursday, June 26, 2014

The Chris McDaniel campaign is looking into voting records to see if Democrat voters who voted in the June 3 primary also voted in this past Tuesday's primary, which is illegal (MSNewsNow).

The Mississippi Tea Party President says they've found evidence that nearly 800 voters crossed over in Tuesday's runoff election that should not have been allowed to vote Republican.

However, Hinds County GOP Chairman Pete Perry says there are some precincts where he knows workers marked the wrong column and that could account for at least 200 of those being cited by the Tea Party.

Members of McDaniel's campaign staff and some supporters began sorting through voter books on Thursday morning at the Hinds County courthouse.

They were looking for any "irregularities".

In Hinds County, poll workers used the Democratic primary books for the GOP runoff in an attempt to prevent crossover voters.

However, the group from McDaniel's camp is still searching those records to try to find anyone who voted as a Democrat on June 3rd and with the GOP on the 24th (the runoff.)

At Gateway Pundit, it is being reported there may be irregularities in multiple counties that could sway the election, in addition to this...

BIG UPDATE—— CHILD ABUSE and THREATS

I just spoke with Lori Medina who is working with Real Conservative National Committee PAC in Mississippi this week. The McDaniel Campaign is targeting 10 counties where they think they can overturn the election results.
Lorie described one precinct where a “little sixteen year-old blonde female” McDaniel supporter was holding a sign and older men would drive by and threaten her. Several other volunteers were also harassed by Cochran supporters.

Here is a page of one of the voting forms (I cropped to omit the voter names).

On Wednesday's Mark Levin Show: Mark says that the Republican Party doesn't represent the people anymore and has no loyalty to conservatives, so why should we keep supporting it then? We used to be proud Republicans, but not anymore - not when they deliberately went to the Democrats in Mississippi to get their vote and to take out conservative Chris McDaniel. Mark says Republicans shouldn't vote for Thad Cochran in Mississippi - with a political battle cry of, "Remember Mississippi." Remember what the Establishment and the likes of Mitch McConnell and others did to conservatives. Chris McDaniel calls in and talks about the sleazy tactics that were used against him, the race baiting that was going on, and the fact that he received more Republican votes than Cochran did, but it was the Democrats that won the race for Cochran. How can we be proud of that?

In case you haven't been aware, this is what the Republican Party strategy was against a Tea Party conservative named Chris McDaniel.

We know turnout was higher in the runoff than it was in the initial primary. About 375,000 voters showed up Tuesday compared with 318,904 on June 3, an increase of more than 17 percent. Cochran raised his vote total by more than 38,000 votes, while McDaniel pulled in only an additional 30,000. That was more than enough to erase McDaniel’s 1,386 vote lead in the first round.

Voter data shows that turnout rose sharply in Tuesday’s election in black areas of the state over the initial June 3 primary, a runoff made necessary when Chris McDaniel narrowly edged Cochran but was unable to win 50 percent of the vote.

That suggested that not only did traditionally Democratic black voters turn out on behalf of the state’s 76-year-old white Republican senator, but they may have provided his margin of victory.

Speaking of which, where in the feckless Rinse Preebus, the head of the RNC? How come he has not weighed in on this despicable episode? Just like he stayed silent as that RINO Bill Bolling and his aide kneecapped Ken Cuccinelli last year and thereby helped the corrupt Clintoniod Terry McAwful squeak into the governor's mansion here in Virginia.

I don't know about you, but this episode and what happened in Virginia last year has cemented my resolve to never vote for any Republican, unless they are a proven conservative. I'm tired of supporting a party whose leaders will bring out the long knives for the Tea Party and conservatives, but will sit and play "patty cake" with the corrupt and lawless Obama Regime, while making their phony Congressional investigations look more like a no-contact, black-belt exhibition instead of anything significant.

John Boehner wants to file a lawsuit against Obama? What a bleeping joke! How about impeaching that DickTator Obama and/or using the power of the purse the House has to cut off funds for the Executive Branch? Boehner's too afraid any bad press will make him cry in his martini back to the tanning salon.

All the blustering by Paul Ryan at the arrogant IRS commissioner is just hot air. You want to impress me Paul Ryan, Darrell Issa? Start contempt citations. Start sending these corrupt IRS officials to jail or threaten them to where one might crack and give necessary information under immunity. There is so much lawlessness going on in our government, yet these RINOs don't want to fight it because they're more interested in looking out for their "good old boy" network, their lobbyists, crony-capitalist buddies and special interests like the pro-amnesty US Chamber of Commerce, than they are the best interests of the American public.

It still might be early, but I'm afraid the GOP establishment is doing all they can to lose possibly gaining control of the US Senate by making the fatal mistake of alienating their voting base. If they do, they have no one to blame but themselves.

Tuesday, June 24, 2014

Yesterday, at the White House, First Lady Moochelle Obama spoke at a Summit for Working Families and said the following (ABC News, via FreeRepublic.com).

At Monday's White House Summit on Working Families, first lady Michelle Obama admitted to a few of her own struggles as a working mother while making the case for flexible workplace policies for families.

"The first thing I tried to do, which was a mistake, was that I tried the part-time thing…I realized I was getting gypped on that front," she told ABC's Robin Roberts at the event, which aimed to bring attention to strengthening the nation's workforce by addressing various workplace difficulties. "What happened was I got a part-time salary but worked full time."

"Gypped" is arguably the most commonly used racist term in existence today. If someone buys a used car that turns out to be lemon, for instance, he’s likely to complain, “I got gypped.” So, why is the term offensive? Because it equates the Gypsy, or Roma peoples, with being thieves, cheats and con artists. When someone says that they “got gypped,” they are essentially saying that they were conned.

Explained Jake Bowers, editor of Travellers Times, to British newspaper the Telegraph: “Gypped is an offensive word, it’s derived from Gypsy and it’s being used in the same context as a person might once have said they ‘jewed’ somebody if they did an underhand business transaction.” But don’t take Bowers’ word for it. If you’re still debating whether or not to use the verb “gypped,” consider that Philip Durkin, principal etymologist at the Oxford English Dictionary told the Telegraph that there’s “scholarly consensus” that the word originated as a “racial slur.”

Friday, June 20, 2014

Clintonoid Virginia Gov. Terry McAwful is showing today just how corrupt and lawless he is, something many of us who knew his history warned Virginia voters about last year (The Bull Elephant).

Governor McAuliffe this morning announced that he was going to attempt a line-item veto of the #BLACKorBUST language prohibiting any expenditures on Medicaid expansion without an additional appropriation by the legislature. He further called the legislative commission set up last year to handle Medicaid expansion (MIRC) essentially a sham, and said he would work around them to achieve his goal of expanded Medicaid under Obamacare by September 1, 2014.

As we understand the situation, though, this will not work for two main reasons. First, as we detailed yesterday, even if his line-item veto of the #BLACKorBUST language works, he is still left without an appropriation of funds. He will have to really push the envelope (or just rip it up entirely) to say that he’s got legitimately appropriated funds to do what he’s pushing for. He’d literally be acting lawlessly: without any authority or legislative appropriation.

Second, the line item veto is available only for appropriation items, not for instruction language. The Virginia Supreme Court has defined an appropriation “item” as an “indivisible sum of money dedicated to a stated purpose.” The #BLACKorBUST amendment carried by Bill Stanley is not a sum of money, or even an appropriation; it is instruction against “appropriation or expenditure” specifically designed to close loopholes the Governor needed to act without the legislature. In other words, the Governor’s attempt at a line-item veto is is not valid, and I would expect the Clerk of the House to ignore it for purposes of enrolling the Governor’s response for consideration by the General Assembly.

The White House will be so disappointed. Obama officials were really counting on McAuliffe to make this Medicaid expansion happen in good time, and McAuliffe in turn was really counting on his boozing-and-schmoozing skills to translate into his own made-up version of bipartisan governance. He has so far been remarkably unsuccessful at persuading either Republican legislators or Virginian voters to come around to his way of thinking on the proposed expansion, and there’s been some speculation that McAuliffe might keep up a budget standoff that could lead to the shutdown of the Virginia state government this summer — but the sudden resignation of a Democratic state senator earlier this month gave Republicans the full General-Assembly majority they needed to try to block Medicaid expansion for good. McAuliffe exasperatedly approved most of the state budget this week, but vetoed Republicans’ added anti-Medicaid amendment, via WaPo:

Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D) vetoed portions of the state budget Friday, setting Virginia up for a legal showdown with legislative Republicans who oppose his efforts to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.

McAuliffe exercised his line-item veto power to strike budget language that Republicans had hoped would block expansion of Medicaid.

McAuliffe railed against Republican opposition to expansion as he announced the move, referring to GOP leaders as stubborn and unwilling to compromise. He said that he would have vetoed the entire budget if it were not just 10 days until the end of the fiscal year, risking a government shutdown.

The General Assembly will take the budget back up on Monday, but for McAuliffe, of course, the fact that the legislature is decidedly against him is no reason to back off of his quest to find a way to expand Medicaid via executive action,à la President Obama. Good grief.

If he wants to follow in the footsteps of Richard Milhous Obama and act like a dictator-at-the-state-level, then I say it's time to impeach him and that crooked Attorney General-by-Theft Mark "Red" Herring.

The Obama administration’s claim to have been surprised by the wave of children flooding over out borders may turn out to be another political lie of the year. Sundance of Conservative Treehouse noticed a very peculiar advertisement:

On January 29th of this year, the federal government posted an advertisement seeking bids for a vendor contract to handle “Unaccompanied Alien Children“.

Not just any contract mind you, but a very specific contract – for a very specific number of unaccompanied minors: 65,000.

• Why would DHS and ICE be claiming “surprise” by the current influx of unaccompanied minors on the border in June, when they were taking bids for an exact contract to handle the exact situation in January?

• Secondly, how could they possibly anticipate 65,000 unaccompanied minors would be showing up at the border, when the most ever encountered in a previous year was 5,000 total ?

The bid specifics are even more suspicious:

[...] The Contractor shall provide unarmed escort staff, including management, supervision, manpower, training, certifications, licenses, drug testing, equipment, and supplies necessary to provide on-demand escort services for non-criminal/non-delinquent unaccompanied alien children ages infant to 17 years of age, seven (7) days a week, 365 days a year. Transport will be required for either category of UAC or individual juveniles, to include both male and female juveniles. There will be approximately 65,000 UAC in total: 25% local ground transport, 25% via ICE charter and 50% via commercial air.

[...] In addition, the Contractor shall have personnel who are able to communicate with juveniles in their own designated language(s).

Here's a screen shot of the ad: The text is in a word document linked in the ad.

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Texas Governor Rick Perry has decided to take action, where the Obama Regime has not, as the state of Texas is facing a swarm of illegal aliens coming across the border. Some, as reported earlier, are being flown from my old stomping grounds of the Rio Grande Valley of Texas to places like Arizona.

Gov. Perry announced "Surge Operations" using state resources (PJ Media).

According to a statement released by the Republican Party of Texas today, Texas leaders including Gov. Rick Perry, Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and state House Speaker Joe Strauss have “directed the Texas Dept. of Public Safety (DPS) to immediately begin law enforcement surge operations on the Texas-Mexico border” because of the “absense of adequate federal resources to secure the border.

The operations will cost Texans $1.3 million per week.

“Texas can’t afford to wait for Washington to act on this crisis and we will not sit idly by while the safety and security of our citizens are threatened,” Gov. Perry says in the statement. “Until the federal government recognizes the danger it’s putting our citizens in by its inaction to secure the border, Texas law enforcement must do everything they can to keep our citizens and communities safe.”

The officials have sent an official letter to DPS Director Steve McCraw, authorizing DPS to conduct law enforcement surge operations using “any funds appropriate to the agency.” The surge operations will continue through the end of the calendar year, according to the joint statement.

Texans are noticing more visible police presence all over the state, and more traffic stops of large vehicles capable of carrying large numbers of people that are traveling northward from the border region, as the state copes with the massive influx of illegal aliens. Gov. Perry has complained that with the federal government failing to stop the flow, and then moving the illegal aliens to hotels around Texas, there are no rooms left for Texans with the summer vacation season here.

According to the Texas Republican statement, Border Patrol has apprehended more illegal aliens in the first eight months of this fiscal year than it apprehended all of last fiscal year — 160,000 this year, versus 154,000 all of last year. An estimated 34,000 unaccompanied alien children have been apprehended in the Rio Grande Valley this year, and estimates peg the year’s total at 90,000.

The Obama administration is using military bases to house some of the illegal aliens, and has shipped some of them as far north as New York and Massachusetts.

What else are we to expect when we have a lawless occupant of the White House, as well as the GOP establishment and their big business interests like the US Chamber of Commerce, who are pushing for amnesty, and Obama threatens executive orders.

This is where people make the mistake of thinking it is incompetence on Obama's part. It's not. It is intentionally done as part of the Cloward-Piven Strategy (Discover the Networks).

First proposed in 1966 and named after Columbia University sociologists Richard Andrew Cloward and Frances Fox Piven, the Cloward-Piven Strategy seeks to hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse.

Inspired by the August 1965 riots in the black district of Watts in Los Angeles (which erupted after police had used batons to subdue an African American man suspected of drunk driving), Cloward and Piven published an article titled "The Weight of the Poor: A Strategy to End Poverty" in the May 2, 1966 issue of The Nation. Following its publication, The Nation sold an unprecedented 30,000 reprints. Activists were abuzz over the so-called "crisis strategy" or "Cloward-Piven Strategy," as it came to be called. Many were eager to put it into effect.

In their 1966 article, Cloward and Piven charged that the ruling classes used welfare to weaken the poor; that by providing a social safety net, the rich doused the fires of rebellion. Poor people can advance only when "the rest of society is afraid of them," Cloward told The New York Times on September 27, 1970. Rather than placating the poor with government hand-outs, wrote Cloward and Piven, activists should work to sabotage and destroy the welfare system; the collapse of the welfare state would ignite a political and financial crisis that would rock the nation; poor people would rise in revolt; only then would "the rest of society" accept their demands.

The key to sparking this rebellion would be to expose the inadequacy of the welfare state. Cloward-Piven's early promoters cited radical organizer Saul Alinsky as their inspiration. "Make the enemy live up to their (sic) own book of rules," Alinsky wrote in his 1971 book Rules for Radicals. When pressed to honor every word of every law and statute, every Judeo-Christian moral tenet, and every implicit promise of the liberal social contract, human agencies inevitably fall short. The system's failure to "live up" to its rule book can then be used to discredit it altogether, and to replace the capitalist "rule book" with a socialist one.

In my mind, Perry needs to go further. Call the National Guard and put them on the border, then send the bill to Washington for them to reimburse Texas. If Obama tries to nationalize the guard, then I'd give orders to have Obama, Eric Holder, or Joe Biden arrested by Texas Rangers if they ever set foot in the Lone Star State.

Monday, June 16, 2014

When Johnny Micheal Spann became the first American casualty in the War on Terror, his daughter, Alison, was only nine years old.

This morning, on KSRO's Sonoma County's Morning News with my good friend Melanie Morgan, Alison Spann, now a recent graduate of Pepperdine University, shared her reaction on the news that the Taliban Five, two of whom was involved in the killing of her father, was released by Richard Milhous Obama from Gitmo, in exchange for the deserter Bowe Bergdahl.

"I would have never imagined our government doing something like this, no." Spann said, noting the news of the release was "pretty demoralizing" and fears the US will "see some repercussions in the future."

Alison said her step-mom, Shannon Spann, was "saddened and shocked" by the release. "She sent me a text and said 'I haven't been able to eat all day. I'm so upset by what our government has done.'"

In a Stripes.com article, the father of Johnny Micheal Spann, said, "I couldn’t believe what I was hearing,” Spann recalled. “It’s a slap in the face to everybody that’s died in this war on terror... Every American that’s lost their life to the hands of the Taliban and al-Qaida — this is a slap in their face to know that we had five high-powered leaders that we just turned loose."

The prison uprising where Spann was killed also involved the traitor from liberal Marin County, CA, John Walker Lindh. So while the Spanns and other families who've lost loved ones defending our nation from terrorists have this salt rubbed in their wounds by the Obama Regime, this Ratboy Lindh is suing the prison he's held at for allegedly violating his Islamic "religion,"as his enabling, liberal parents want him released.

Alison Spann also told Morgan, "A lesson that should be learned from this is that the American people need to not be complacent and we need to be informed and stay on top of a lot of decisions our government is making and I think in the future we need to expect more from our leadership and hold them accountable for what they are doing, because decisions like this do not need to be made again."

Sunday, June 15, 2014

Days after the terrorist attack in Benghazi in which our Ambassador and three other Americans were killed by Islamic jihadi terrorists, Michelle Malkin said the follow on Sean Hannity's TV show regarding the optics of the White House, jetting off to campaign in Vegas the next day while calling the terror attack a "tough day."

"These optics suck, White House!"

I thought about those exact words yesterday as I saw images on Twitter of Iraqis being rounded up by the truckload and then executed in cold blood by ISIS.

And then there's Obama in Palm Springs, playing golf like he's Alfred E. Newmann of Mad Magazine, "What me, worry?", right after giving a speech to UC Irvine's graduating class about the pressing issues of the day (h/t American Power).

And what is the pressing issue of the day to that rectal orifice Obama? Climate change. Or, as I call it, GloBULL Warming. This man-made fraud that we humans are somehow responsible for how hot or cold the earth gets. Never mind that the earth has been here millions of years before we came on to the planet, survived Ice ages and other events, and will be here for millions of years after. Never mind the fact that there just might be some Higher Being in charge of it all. No, Obama and his Big Government liberals are using polar bears and melting ice caps as a way to scare you into giving up more of your freedom. Drive the cars, set the thermostat, take a trip, not take a trip, all based on what government wants us to do.

Meanwhile, parents like Debbie Lee have to watch the blood and sacrifice of their sons and daughter in Iraq be disgraced by this American Idol wanna-be leader who shows no respect for their service.

I wrote about this the other day and still POed at seeing this "ho-hum" attitude from Obama and his White House. So I repeat Michelle Malkin's words to you and your Regime, Obama, "These Optics Suck!!!"

Thursday, June 12, 2014

While the al-Queda-linked ISIS is closing in on Baghdad and the Middle East falls into chaos and flames, it appears this crisis won't stop Richard Milhous Obama from two of his favorite pastimes...fundraising for the Party of Treason (Democrats) and a few rounds of golf in Palm Springs, CA (The Press Enterprise).

President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama land at Palm Springs International Airport just after 6 p.m. Friday, straight from a visit to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota.

At 8:25 a.m. Saturday, they’ll jump over to Laguna Beach for a Democratic National Committee fundraiser, followed by the commencement address to UC Irvine’s Class of 2014 at Angel Stadium.

The Obamas will return to the desert by about 2:10 p.m. Saturday, staying for Father’s Day, before flying home to Washington, D.C., about 10 a.m. Monday. It’s unclear if their daughters, Malia and Sasha, will tag along.

What is Obama’s plan here in the Coachella Valley? Presumably a short vacation, and likely a round of golf or two – though the details remain fuzzy.

It’s the president’s third desert visit in the past year, though the first time accompanied by his wife. He met with Chinese President Xi Jinping last June and King Abdullah II of Jordan in February.

Yeah, Obama will give lip service to sending help to Iraq, but do you think he really means it? Come on! He wanted out of there so quickly he sent Joe Bite Me there for the purpose of screwing up any agreement to have a small US force there to make sure things were calm. It was purely politics...pull out in 2011 and let the chips fall where they may, just like when Obama and his fellow travellers in the Party of Treason attacked the war effort under the Bush Administration...purely of political purposes, and we see now (thanks to Obama, as well as "Hanoi" John Kerry's lack of leadership) how he and the Democrats really don't give a damn about our troops or the security of our allies or us.

Listen to how delusional Jay Carney is today, when ABC (of all the networks) brought up the "al-Queda is decimated" line of bull the Regime spouted in 2012.

Meanwhile, stories are coming out how beheading police and Iraqi military, as well as implimenting Sharia law (Pamela Geller). Even the Washington ComPost is reporting how the al-Queda linked ISIS is using brutal forms of punishment such as amputations, and forcing women to stay indoors. Yet no one...not Obama, not even the "smartest woman in the world" Hillary could see this coming. Really? A blind person could have seen this one coming. Vietnam should have been a lesson of what happens when the anti-military Left in America gets their way, that our enemies take over. But when put those people in a position of power thanks to a sycophantic and corrupt media, as well as a voting public mind-numbed by American Idol and the Kartrashian family that they elect these liberals based on the celebrity-like status the adoring media gives them.

Here's one other element of the rise of Islamism in Iraq, thanks to our American Idol President (Gateway Pundit).

Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), has transformed a few terror cells on the verge of extinction into the most dangerous militant group in the world.

Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi or Abu Dua was once held by the US in Camp Bucca Iraq.
abu dua
(The Telegraph).

But the Obama administration shut down the Bucca prison camp and released its prisoners, including Abu Dua in 2009.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Richard Milhous Obama is probably the best friend of al-Queda and Islamofascists around the world. He has singlehandedly reversed all the gains that the United States, under George W. Bush made against their extremist, world-wide jihad...and then some.

At the beginning of the month, he traded five big kahunas of the Taliban (who gave bin Laden and al-Queda shelter in Afghanistan, pre 9/11) for one US Army deserter (without consulting Congress). Now, because he was so eager to end "Bush's war," Iraq is falling into the hands of al-Queda linked groups.

Fueled by training in the Syrian civil war and allowed by the vacuum of no major U.S. forces in Iraq, the al-Qaeda-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS), is poised to take control of the most land mass since al-Qaeda formed in the late 1980s. According to videos posted by ISIS on social media, the militants also captured U.S. Humvees and Blackhawk helicopters from the Iraqi forces.

So far this week, ISIS forces have captured Tikrit — the former home of Saddam Hussein and his political movement — and Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city. As ISIS forces converged on Mosul on Tuesday, U.S.-trained Iraqi forces collapsed and fled the city. Tikrit is less than 100 miles from Iraq’s capital of Baghdad, while Mosul is just 225 miles to the northwest from Baghdad.

“The city of Mosul is outside the control of the state and at the mercy of the militants,” an interior ministry official told the Agence France Presse news agency, saying soldiers had fled after removing their uniforms.

Several residents told the Associated Press that the militants were now touring the city with loudspeakers, announcing that they had “come to liberate Mosul and would fight only those who attack them.”

The al-Qaeda aligned ISIS organization now effectively controls a region from the eastern Syrian city of Raqaa, over the through the western Iraqi desert up to northern Iraq and less than 100 miles from Baghdad.

Carroll also notes...

The war conditions in Iraq have begun to affect the Middle East region more broadly. Iran’s official IRNA news agency reported that all Iranian airlines flights between Baghdad and Iran were cancelled and the Iranian government was increasing security on its border with Iraq.

And according to the New York Slimes, the Obama Regime is giving a cold sholder to the Iraq government for help...

As the threat from Sunni militants in western Iraq escalated last month, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki secretly asked the Obama administration to consider carrying out airstrikes against extremist staging areas, according to Iraqi and American officials.

But Iraq’s appeals for military assistance have so far been rebuffed by the White House, which has been reluctant to open a new chapter in a conflict that President Obama has insisted was closed when the United States withdrew the last of its forces from Iraq in 2011

Sunni militants consolidated and extended their control over northern Iraq on Wednesday, seizing Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein, threatening the strategic oil refining town of Baiji and pushing south toward Baghdad, their ultimate target, Iraqi sources said.

As the dimensions of the assault began to become clear, it was evident that a number of militant groups had joined forces, including Baathist military commanders from the Hussein era, whose goal is to rout the government of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. One of the Baathists, Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, was a top military commander and a vice president in the Hussein government and one of the few prominent Baathists to evade capture by the Americans throughout the occupation.

“These groups were unified by the same goal, which is getting rid of this sectarian government, ending this corrupt army and negotiating to form the Sunni Region,” said Abu Karam, a senior Baathist leader and a former high-ranking army officer, who said planning for the offensive had begun two years ago. “The decisive battle will be in northern Baghdad. These groups will not stop in Tikrit and will keep moving toward Baghdad.”

What does this sound like? Oh yeah, when the Communist North Vietnamese overran South Vietnam, and the anti-war radicals who began the takeover of the Democrat party in 1968, used their clout in Congress to deny President Ford the ability to aid the South, thus letting it fall into the hands of the Communists. Now Obama, "Hanoi" John Kerry, and the Party of Treason have done Vietnam redux, turning America's back on a government we built with our treasure, plus the blood and sacrifice of our young men and women who served.

This isn't just about Obama, Bush, or Democrats. What Obama is showing the world is how America is feckless, and you cannot trust this nation, for we might one day abandon you.

Tuesday, June 10, 2014

You would think that Congresswoman Jackie Speier, who nearly lost her life at the hands of a left-wing extremist from the Bay Area named the Rev. Jim Jones, would recognize what extremism will do.

But she doesn't, and proved today she's willing to overlook extremism if it prevents making her party and her President look bad (Washington Examiner).

A Democratic House member said Tuesday she sees a role for the Taliban in Afghanistan's future government after U.S. forces withdraw.

The Taliban are "part of the fabric of Afghanistan. They were part of the leadership of that country before we engaged there," Rep. Jackie Speier, D-Calif., told host Kristen Welker on MSNBC, noting that the Obama administration is trying to push the government of President Hamid Karzai to negotiate with the Islamist extremist group "because there will be some cooperation, some level of coordination between the two if that country is going to survive and move forward. So, to say that they are terrorists, at this point, is not necessarily accurate."

Speier was responding to comments by House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, who said the deal to free five Taliban leaders in exchange for captured Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl would come back to haunt the United States.

“We're going to pay for this,” he told reporters Tuesday. “There is not any doubt in my mind there are going to be costs — lost lives associated with what came out of this.”

Are you kidding me, Jackie? You claim to care so much about women's issues and you turn a blind eye to the way the Taliban treat women lower than dogs, all because your President cannot be made to look bad?

"My Party...Right or Wrong" The Democrat Mantra that Speier and the rest of them blindly chant. Which is why I've said and written for at least the last ten years that the Democrat Party is a Part of Treason that doesn't give a damn about the security of the American people, and definitely don't care about the lives lost in defeating this extremist group who harbored those that planned the attack on America on 9/11.

So much for the premature obituaries being written by the Obama/Democrat lapdog media about the Tea Party, we're alive and well! (Fox News).

In a stunning upset, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor lost the GOP Virginia primary Tuesday night to Dave Brat, an economics professor and political novice.

The Associated Press called the race for Cantor about an hour after polls closed at 7 p.m. ET.

Cantor is the second-most powerful member of the U.S. House and was widely seen as the next in line to succeed House Speaker John Boehner.

Cantor's loss to a political novice with little money marks a huge victory for the Tea Party movement, which supported Cantor just a few years ago.

Brat had been a thorn in Cantor's side on the campaign, casting the congressman as a Washington insider who isn't conservative enough. His message apparently scored well with voters in the 7th District.

"There needs to be a change," said Joe Mullins, who voted in Chesterfield County Tuesday. The engineering company employee said he has friends who tried to arrange town hall meetings with Cantor, who declined their invitations.

I just don’t see how Eric Cantor pulls it out at this point. He has suffered devastating blows in Hanover, Chesterfield and even in Henrico – his home county. Say goodbye to the Majority Leader. The grassroots have spoken. They wanted to send a strong message to Washington DC and they just did.

Oh, by the way…the tea party is alive and well!

I'm sure Karl Rove, Bill Bolling and all the other RINOs will waste no time trying to sabatoge Brat. They're part of the problem.

And just who is Anissa? From this link (translated), she would seem to be a 10-year member of an Al Qaeda technology support team.

I thank Allah (Subhana Wa'a Ta'laah) for guiding me on the path of truth, righteousness and justice, which is the Path of Jihad. Agradezdo my beloved brothers and sisters of the Scientific and Technological Committee of Al 'Qaida and TTP, as also to the various centers Translations of the Jihad, Al Al'Qaida General Command and the Taliban who have allowed me to develop and exhibit my work over 10 years.

There's a lot more going on with Robert Bergdahl than what's been marketed in the media. Remember the reason forhis beard?

As for the beard, Robert Bergdahl grew it as a way to mark the time since his son was captured in 2009, and also as an attempt to curry favor with his son’s captors, according to the Post account. He studied Pashto, a national language of Afghanistan, in an effort to familiarize himself with the culture of the place where his son was a prisoner.

Based on Bergdahl's YouTube channel, however, there's more than meets the eye.

The age and history of these social networking accounts point to the fact that they are genuine.

Yeah, those beards from father and son were a big question mark, especially when the gave the Islamic greeting. I didn't think they were planning to start a ZZ Top tribute band anytime soon.

The White House allowed the parents of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl to take part in a series of secure video conferences with State Department and intelligence officials and senior military commanders, according to a published report.

The Washington Times reports that Bob and Jani Bergdahl were allowed to join the conferences remotely from the Idaho National Guard headquarters in Boise soon after their son was captured by the Taliban in June 2009.

A spokesman for the Idaho National Guard told the paper that the Bergdahls participated in up to 20 video conferences per year.

"Mr. and Mrs. Bergdahl were regularly informed about what was happening throughout the duration using video teleconferencing [with] various military and other government agencies," said Air Force Col. Anthony Marsano. "There was a great effort to keep Mr. and Mrs. Bergdahl updated on developments."

Larry Johnson, a former State Department official who worked on the cases of American citizens taken hostage in Lebanon during the 1980s, told the Times that granting such access to the family of a missing person was "wrong."

"The Bergdahls shouldn't have been part of that for no other reason than on the off chance they may inadvertently divulge some tactic," Johnson told the paper. "I mean, it's one thing for government officials to interview the family, get insights from the family about what’s going on."But to put them in the middle of what is essentially a classified secure video conference is ridiculous."

Saturday, June 07, 2014

I could be wrong, but I think we hit a milestone a week ago when Richard Milhous Obama announced he'd traded the deserter Bowe Bergdahl for the Taliban Dream Team.

He came out to take credit for something that blew up in his face, whereas before, he'd been able to escape blame for the failures of his Regime. It is something known as the "Limbaugh Theroem," put forth by Rush Limbaugh.

Well, this time, instead of being able to come out after the fact and act unattached to the Bergdahl swap, Obama has this whole thing stuck to him, because the blowback happened after he announced it. Thus, Obama is unable to campaign against it or act like he had anything to do with it.

And this brings up another item that I've heard and see many people (some of whom I admire) discuss about Obama. He's incompetent, or, as Mitt Romney put it, he's in over his head.

That is a nice thought and it appears correct on the surface, but it is an underestimation of who Obama really is. It's not that Obama is incompetent, and to think so is incredibly naive. This is how he really thinks and believes. He believes in big government and socialism. In addition, it should be seen that the release of Bergdahl and the reaction towards those who condemned he showed us further evidence of his dislike and contempt for the United States and our military.

Think of this. Obama is a student of radical Saul Alinsky. He got his political career started in the home of 1960s Weather Underground domestic terrorist Bill Ayers. He had the support of anti-American, anti-military radicals like Jodie Evans of Code Pinko. He spent 20 years in a supposed church where racism toward whites, and hatred of the US and Israel was preached instead of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Obama is the epitome and the fruit of the 1960s New Left and anti-war movement. Like Alinsky wrote about, these anti-American radicals infiltrated the Democrat Party and are in places of power today. The rhetoric is still the same. No war is just. Americas enemies (Communists, Islamofascists) hate us and attack us because of alleged wrongs the Left regurgitates against America, hence why former US Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick called them "blame America first." That is why the only program liberal Democrats want to cut is the US military. People who join the military are seen by today's liberals as uneducated or have no other avenue to make it in life.

Quite telling too, is how Obama sat at a ceremony yesterday honoring the 70th anniversary of D-Day, and rudely chewed gum like a cow munching on grass.

That is right up there with what we saw from him and Moochelle on the 10th anniversary of 9/11.

What else is this but utter contempt of our nation and the lives lost on these sacred days in our history by this SOB? He dishonors the office he holds and those who are being honored at these ceremonies.

This is not incompetence, being over your head or not knowing any better, this is how Obama and the Left operate and think, because it's who they are.

Responding to Kelly's questions about an exclusive Fox News report by James Rosen that alleges Bergdahl converted to Islam, fraternized openly with his captors and declared himself a "warrior for Islam," former platoon leader Evan Buetow said, "We knew that he had deserted."

Buetow went on to say that the unit on the ground in Afghanistan had knowledge that Bergdahl was attempting to find the Taliban, or someone outside of the platoon with whom he could speak in English who could talk to the Taliban for him.

When asked by Kelly for a head-count of how many among the six platoon members thought Bergdahl deserted, every hand went up.

"It doesn't matter what his motives were. We all took an oath and had to abide by orders, and you don't just leave your fellow Americans to join somebody else," said Cody Full, who was Bergdahl's former roommate.

Former platoon leader Evan Buetow described in detail the morning the platoon realized Bergdahl was missing, and the subsequent search that ensued.

In the days since the platoon members first spoke out about Bergdahl, reports have surfaced that some White House aides have accused the former platoon members of "swift boating," a reference to a group of Vietnam veterans who questioned now Secretary of State John Kerry's military service record during his presidential run in 2004.

Department of State spokespeople have openly called into question the credibility of the soldiers who were there on the ground in Afghanistan when Bergdahl disappeared.

In an even more outrageous turn, a deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development suggested on Twitter that the platoon members speaking out against Bergdahl were "psychopaths." The deputy secretary, Brandon Friedman, was formerly a VA official.

When asked by Kelly for their reaction, the six platoon members gave an incredulous chuckle. Gerald Sutton said he was flattered, because it meant that the administration was noticing their story.

The platoon members all agreed that none of them have political motivations in speaking out against Bergdahl.

The way these patriots are being attacked is another example of how the Regime and the Democrat liberals have noting but contempt for our military.

U.S. Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl at one point during his captivity converted to Islam, fraternized openly with his captors and declared himself a "mujahid," or warrior for Islam, according to secret documents prepared on the basis of a purported eyewitness account and obtained by Fox News.

The reports indicate that Bergdahl's relations with his Haqqani captors morphed over time, from periods of hostility, where he was treated very much like a hostage, to periods where, as one source told Fox News, "he became much more of an accepted fellow" than is popularly understood. He even reportedly was allowed to carry a gun at times.

The documents show that Bergdahl at one point escaped his captors for five days and was kept, upon his re-capture, in a metal cage, like an animal. In addition, the reports detail discussions of prisoner swaps and other attempts at a negotiated resolution to the case that appear to have commenced as early as the fall of 2009.

The reports are rich in on-the-ground detail -- including the names and locations of the Haqqani commanders who ran the 200-man rotation used to guard the Idaho native -- and present the most detailed view yet of what Bergdahl's life over the past five years has been like. These real-time dispatches were generated by the Eclipse Group, a shadowy private firm of former intelligence officers and operatives that has subcontracted with the Defense Department and prominent corporations to deliver granular intelligence on terrorist activities and other security-related topics, often from challenging environments in far-flung corners of the globe.

The president fielded a question on the Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl controversy during a press conference on Thursday in Brussels, Belgium, alongside British Prime Minister David Cameron. Amid signals that the administration plans to aggressively challenge critics of the deal, the president brushed off the pushback as business as usual in Washington.

"I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington. That's par for the course," Obama said.

He reiterated that he was adhering to a principle that America does not leave soldiers behind.

"We had a prisoner of war whose health had deteriorated and we were deeply concerned about -- and we saw an opportunity and we seized it," he said. "And I make no apologies for that."

Well, when these jihadis you released go out on the battlefield and kill some of our military, or possibly plot terror attacks that kill American citizens, will you apologize then? Not just to the families, but to the nation? Or, will you blame it on a video?

Its one thing for Obama Regime officials, Democrats and their goosestepping army of Kool-Aid drinkers to attack private citizens (Tea Party) or politicians for disagreeing with their False Messiah Obama.

But it is another thing altogether when you attack members of the United States Military who have served with honor, for registering their disgust against the Obama Regime's surrender to Islamofascist terrorists over deserter Bowe Bergdahl.

Swiftboating is a reference to how Hanoi John Kerry's shipmates threw a wrench into his 2004 makeover from a treasonous scumbag who used his military service to attack those still in the field to bonafide Vietnam war hero.

State Department official Marie Barf, who looks like she was a reject from the set of the 1980s movie Valley Girl, also attacked Bergdahl's squad mates, saying the deserter knew better than them.

Brandon Friedman, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs for the Department of Housing and Urban Development posted a series of tweets Wednesday evening in which he speculated that Bergdahl deserted over bad leadership of his platoon and that is why his fellow soldiers were smearing him.

"Here's the thing about Bergdahl and the Jump-to-Conclusions mats: What if his platoon was long on psychopaths and short on leadership? (1/5)"

Friedman's Wikipedia page says he is a decorated war veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan and is a veteran of the Democratic Party front group VoteVets. He joined the Obama administration in 2009 at the Veterans Administration. He left in 2012 and rejoined the administration in 2014 at HUD.

Then there's 9/11 Troofer (his name was later removed) Van Jones, who graduated as an anti-police rabble-rouser from the sewer of an Oakland, CA ghetto, to Obama's "Green Jobs" czar and now a host of CNN's Crossfire.

Now, I admit, there are important answers we have to answer here, but Sergeant Bergdahl isn't even out of the hospital yet and already the air waves are being filled mysteriously with former soldiers just trashing the guy. What is going on here? Well, it turns out that there are Republican operatives who are working behind the scenes to get some of those guys on television. This is an orchestrated smear campaign. The implication is that President Obama should have left a U.S. soldier to die, but if he had done that, the same Republicans would be attacking him for doing that, so the whole thing is completely outrageous.

Let me remind you how Van Jones on 9/12/2001, held a cheerleading for the terrorists event in Oakland:

“It’s the bombs that the government has been dropping around the world that are now blowing up inside the U.S. borders....We’ve got something stronger than bombs, we have solidarity. That dream of revolutionary change is stronger than bombs.”

That's not all, Van Jones doesn't think the US needs to be a military superpower.

So this is the new strategy of the Obama Regime and the Democrats? Attack the honorable service of military members? That is not a winning strategy, especially after we've seen how they treat returning veterans.

But what else should we expect from the "Party of Treason." It's more proof of what we've seen in their defense of "Hanoi" John Kerry now Bergdahl. The only military members the Democrat Party, Obama, his Regime, all their spoksemouths and sycophants like Media Mutters for America seem to respect and glorify are the deserters, traitors and phony soldiers.